PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1889. "The AAPSS seeks to promote the progress of the social sciences and the use of social science knowledge in the enrichment of public understanding and in the development of public policy. It does so by fostering multidisciplinary understanding of important questions among those who create, disseminate, and apply the social sciences, and by encouraging and celebrating talented people who produce and use research to enhance public understanding of important social problems."

Official Website:
http://www.aapss.org/

Location:
Philadelphia, PA

Founding Date:
1889

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sissela Bok	Scholar	2-Dec-1934		Ethicist
Edward Bouchet	Physicist	15-Sep-1852	28-Oct-1918	First African-American PhD
Emmet D. Boyle	Politician	26-Jul-1879	3-Jan-1926	Governor of Nevada, 1915-23
Stephen B. Burbank	Educator	c. 1946		UPenn Law Professor
Amy Gutmann	Educator	19-Nov-1949		President, University of Pennsylvania
Herbert Hoover	Head of State	10-Aug-1874	20-Oct-1964	31st US President, 1929-33
Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Scholar	24-Nov-1946		Annenberg Public Policy Center
Robert Jervis	Historian	1940		The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy
Thomas Kennedy	Labor Leader	2-Nov-1887	19-Jan-1963	UMW President, 1960-63
Robert O. Keohane	Scholar	3-Oct-1941		After Hegemony
Morris E. Leeds	Business	6-Mar-1869	8-Feb-1952	Leeds & Northrup Co.
Breckinridge Long	Diplomat	16-May-1881	26-Sep-1958	US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36
Elinor Ostrom	Sociologist	7-Aug-1933	12-Jun-2012	Common-pool resources
Nell Irvin Painter	Historian	2-Aug-1942		Creating Black Americans
Jaroslav Pelikan	Historian	17-Dec-1923	13-May-2006	The Christian Tradition
Frances Perkins	Government	10-Apr-1882	14-May-1965	First female US cabinet member
Diane Ravitch	Government	1-Jul-1938		Education reformer
Nicholas J. Spykman	Geographer	13-Oct-1893	26-Jun-1943	Godfather of Containment
Alfred Holt Stone	Scholar	16-Oct-1870	11-May-1955	Studies in the American Race Problem
Lester Frank Ward	Sociologist	18-Jun-1841	18-Apr-1913	Dynamic Sociology
Oliver E. Williamson	Economist	27-Sep-1932		Transaction cost economics

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